She was captured by HMS Foudroyant, under Captain John Jervis.

[1] Jervis was invested Knight of the Order of the Bath for the capture.

[2] Pégase was bought into the Royal Navy and commissioned as the third rate HMS Pegase.

She served as a prison ship in Portsmouth from 1799, and was broken up in 1815.

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